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Purpose
The Graduate Christian Fellowship (GCF) as the
graduate student ministry of Reach Out on Campus seeks to fulfill ROC’s
purpose while connecting graduate students with other graduate students and
Christian faculty members highlighting the import of Christian community, Christian
spiritual formation and Christian witness.
Why?
Great question! Thanks for asking. Graduate
school is a demanding place both spiritually as well as academically.
Through Graduate Christian Fellowship you can connect with other students
who share similar concerns about integrating their Christian faith with
their academic endeavors. We seek to facilitate weekly meetings of small
groups of graduate students for Bible study and prayer and monthly
gatherings of all the small groups for times of fellowship and worship. Our
purpose statement highlights three important purposes: Christian community,
Christian spiritual formation and Christian witness.
Christian community is central to living the
Christian life, especially in the university context. Christian community
helps you, as a student, by enabling relationships that are enjoyable and
spiritually nurturing. It gives you a place where you can blow off steam
and be encouraged. It is a safe place to bring hurts and fears so that you
might be built up and that you might pray with other Christians who are
concerned about you.
Christian spiritual formation is the process
of being conformed to the image of Jesus Christ. It is vital that you continue
to grow spiritually while you seek to grow academically. We are all in
process. None of us has arrived and we need continued encouragement to
submit to the Lord who is the Savior and Lover of our souls. We are seeking
to place ourselves in the path of this wild lover in order for Him to mold
us as He desires.
Christian witness in the academy is an
important part of our life together as Christians at the university. We
accomplish this through individual and group effort. Our seeking to maintain
the unity of the Spirit within the GSCN is an attempt to fulfill and to
express the prayer of Jesus in John 17:21. Our hope is also that each grad
student might continue to grow in his/her ability to share Jesus with
others.
In the midst of our desire for community,
spiritual formation and witness we want to encourage academic excellence.
The apostle Paul said to do everything to the glory of God. Our hope is
that as you continue your education, your participation in the GSCN will
enable you better to bring glory to God. If you’re interested in more
information, please feel free to contact Rich Teske (tesker@ohio.edu).
For small group Bible study times click
here.
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Please contact us with any questions or for more info
at:
reach@ohiou.edu
Reach Out on Campus, Ohio
University
P.O. Box 2613
Athens, OH 45701
(740) 592-1086
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